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  LE SORT DES HOMMES , Fable 17

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<td class="fp-left"><div class="fp-chapter"><a href="/2011/09/la-barbe-des-chevres.html">Fable précédente</a></div>
<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Livre 4, Fable 17</span><span class="fp-text">LE SORT DES HOMMES</span></div>
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<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Liber IV, Fabula XVII</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">DE FORTUNIS HOMINUM</span></div>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Un homme se plaignait du triste état de sa fortune.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Ésope, pour le consoler, inventa cet apologue.</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Cum de fortunis quidam <span class="fp-correction" title="quaereretur  (orig. avec f. de voca.)"><span class="fp-difference">quereretur</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="quereretur  (f. de voca. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">quaereretur</span></span> suis,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Aesopus finxit consolandi gratia&nbsp;:</span></span></span></td>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Un navire était battu par une tempête furieuse ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">l'équipage en pleurs ne voyait plus que la mort,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">lorsque soudain le temps change, redevient serein ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et le bâtiment, hors de danger, est poussé par des vents favorables.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Les Matelots se livrent aux transports d'une joie excessive.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Mais le Pilote, que le péril avait rendu sage, leur dit&nbsp;:</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">9&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">«&nbsp;Il faut être modéré dans la joie, comme dans les plaintes ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">10&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">car la vie entière n'est qu'un mélange de douleurs et de plaisirs.&nbsp;»</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">«&nbsp;Vexata saevis navis tempestatibus,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">inter vectorum lacrimas et mortis metum</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">faciem ad serenam subito ut mutatur dies,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">ferri secundis tuta coepit flatibus</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate"><span class="fp-correction" title="nimiaquae  (orig. avec f. d'orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">nimiaque</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="nimiaque  (f. d'orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">nimiaquae</span></span> nautas hilaritate extollere.&nbsp;»</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Factus periculosis tum gubernator sophus&nbsp;:</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">9&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">«&nbsp;Parce gaudere oportet et sensim queri,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">10&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">totam <span class="fp-correction" title="quae  (orig. avec f. de voca.)"><span class="fp-difference">aeque</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="aeque  (f. de voca. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">quae</span></span> vitam miscet dolor et gaudium.&nbsp;»</span></span></span></td>
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<div class="fp-translator">Traduit par M. E. Panckoucke, 1864</div>

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